Is this worth the money? And is it a good translation? Since I received about $60 from my Baptism, I was thinking of saving it up and treating myself to this massive book collection, but I do not want to waste away $137 on something that might now be worth it. And no, don't tell me about ebooks and kindles; I like my old fashioned hard-cover books. Even if it means paying hundreds of dollars...

Is this worth the money? And is it a good translation? Since I received about $60 from my Baptism, I was thinking of saving it up and treating myself to this massive book collection, but I do not want to waste away $137 on something that might now be worth it. And no, don't tell me about ebooks and kindles; I like my old fashioned hard-cover books. Even if it means paying hundreds of dollars...

They are excellent. I have had enough experience with 19th Century literature that I have no problem reading these. I often find myself looking up one thing and then reading for hours. Very well worth it, as are the two sets of the Post-Nicene Fathers.

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I would be happy to agree with you, but then both of us would be wrong.

Is this worth the money? And is it a good translation? Since I received about $60 from my Baptism, I was thinking of saving it up and treating myself to this massive book collection, but I do not want to waste away $137 on something that might now be worth it. And no, don't tell me about ebooks and kindles; I like my old fashioned hard-cover books. Even if it means paying hundreds of dollars...

I see used sets start at 89.99 on there. I'd go that route if I were you, simply because, IMO, gently used books are the way to go.

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I might look into buying these at a later date. I have a free version of these books in pdf format that I obtained from ecmarsh.com and I love using them on my Kobo, but I would prefer to have them in a hardcopy format for easier searching and referencing. (for some odd reason volume 9 is missing but volume 10 is available...)

There is a great website I stumbled upon in Russian, but I can't find it now. The site is in Russian but the Fathers were not in Russian (I came across it looking for the Greek of St. Epiphanios).

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